Horse Racing Roundup | Knickerbocker to Za Approval

3rd graded-stakes victory this year

10:01 PM,
Oct. 12, 2013

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From special dispatches

Za Approval delivered as the favorite in Saturday's $200,000, Grade III Knickerbocker for 3-year-olds and up at Belmont Park, giving jockey Joel Rosario his first stakes victory since returning from a left foot fracture suffered in August.

The 5-year-old gelding, trained by Christophe Clement for Live Oak Plantation, shot past pacesetter Plainview in the final three-sixteenths to win in his first start at 11⁄8 miles. He was timed in 1:46.51 on firm turf and paid $5.50 for his third graded-stakes victory this year.